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Chairman’s orner By Bryan Henderson, Chairman PCA Club Racing 4 Club Racing news We are well into our first National Championship season. Points totals are available on the PCA.org web site under Club Racing - Race Results – Points Championship Standings. The Points Championship Standings button is just below the individual race weekend results. You can look at the top 3 in each class, any class in full detail or any driver’s results. Check it out. We are making plans for a celebration of our National Champions and podium finishers in the championship race. The Celebration will be held early in the 48 Hours of Sebring Club Race weekend in Sebring Florida in early February 2013. Look for details coming out over the next two months. Racing in PCA is definitely up for 2012. After the first six months, total racer entries were up 12% over the same time period last year. Sell outs continue as Mid-Ohio is currently full with a couple of weeks to go. Road America entries are running very strong. If you want to go to a specific race, make sure you register early and pay the entry fee. A few weeks out, or as a sold out point is reached, race organizers will begin to drop those entries that have not paid the entry fee. They need a good count for the goodies they provide like dinners and shirts. We don’t want them to buy those things for you if you are waiting on a weather forecast to determine your true interest. Besides, sometimes that tactic doesn’t work very well. For example, Road Atlanta this year and Watkins Glen last year had terrible weather forecast for the weekend but the weather was great. Along with our National Championship and increase in racing we have had another very pleasant program development. Incidents in general and especially multi-car incidents and the resulting 13/13 sanctions are down in raw numbers by 22% over the same time period for last year. When that number is adjusted for the increased participation, 13/13 incidents are down a whopping 32%. Good work guys and gals - keep it up. Our stewards work very hard to “get it right” each and every time Vu Nguyen, PCA Executive director, and I had a nice visit this past week with the good folks at one of our primary sponsors and Michelin representative Jackson Motorsports Group (JMG). JMG is an advertising agency that works with many well-known brands. JMG is the sole importer and retailer of Michelin race tires for virtually all of the United States. They also provide very good pricing and service on BFG race tires. We came away with some good information for all of us. PCA Club Racing competition license holders can receive great pricing on Michelin high performance street tires and Wiley X Sunglasses from JMG. They also provide free mounting and balancing of race tires they sell at the track for events where they will be on site. They will be there any time we have a total of 10 or more GTC3, GTC4, or GTC5 Cup Cars registered two weeks before the race. At races where they will not be supporting, they will provide free shipping to the track. Any license holder can contact JMG with their needs. They can be reached at 800-722-3234. Apparently the price of race tires has gone up quite a bit over that last couple of years. I see prices in many cases for our stock class cars that are 30% higher than what the same tire cost two years ago. The Michelin tires specked for our GTC3-5 classes went up about 10% this year. This was the first price increase in several years on those tires. I am assured that the increase has nothing to do with our relationship with JMG. That seems like a rational statement based on what has happened to other race tire prices over the last couple of years. I don’t have a clue about what has caused the price increases. Oil? I believe that JMG is working hard to keep the prices reasonable for our racers and believe the price will stay stable for the rest of the year. Our stewards met in Dallas on 8/4/2012. Our meetings are designed to keep our steward group on the same page in how we run events and decide the fault in incidents. Consistency is very important. These guys and gal work very hard to “get it right” each and every time. They give up several weekends a year working races and lots of time working with the regions setting up races. There is a bunch going on behind the scenes that is necessary to have well run races for PCA. Thank them and all of the rest of the National team when you get a chance. Don’t forget the local volunteers who work very hard to put on each race weekend as well. It is amazing to me that a club like PCA has folks that are capable of and willing to do what these people do so that we can enjoy some fantastic racing and create some very wonderful memories. Be safe! Bryan
Porsche supplies the horses. We supply the shoes. Jackson Motorsports Group is proud to be an official sponsor of PCA and supplier of MICHELIN ® race tires for all PCA racing events. To make sure your team has tires to run on before your next race, give us a call at 800.722.3234. Official Sponsor
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Page 8 and 9: View from the Tower By Vicki Earnsh
Page 10 and 11: From Start to Finish By Michael Win
Page 12 and 13: Rules Change Proposals By Walt Fric
Page 14 and 15: Boots on the Ground By Ray Newman,
Page 16 and 17: Mid-year Rules Changes ONLINE ORDER
Page 18 and 19: Anatomy of a Club Race By Alex Bell
Page 20 and 21: Intermountain Region Club Race Pict
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